Joseph R. McElrath,
for The Apprenticeship Writings of Frank Norris, 1896-1898
John Frederick Lewis Award
Established by a gift from the widow of John F. Lewis, to honor the outstanding maritime lawyer who played a major role in various cultural institutions in Philadelphia. Since 1981 the award has recognized the best book published by the Society in a given year.
1996
1995
Herbert H. Kaplan,
for Russian Overseas Commerce with Great Britain During the Reign of Catherine II
Corinne Comstock Weston,
for The House of Lords and Ideological Politics: Lord Salisbury's Referendal Theory and the Conservative Party, 1846-1922
1994
Paul Bushkovitch and Maija Jansson,
for England and the North: The Russian Embassy of 1613-1614
Barbara Nevling Porter,
for Images, Power and Politics: Figurative Aspects of Esarhaddon's Babylonian Policy
1993
David Gilman Romano,
for Athletics and Mathematics in Archaic Corinth: The Origins of the Greek 'Stadion'
1992
Sister Irma Corcoran,
for Thomas Holme, 1624-1695, Surveyor General of Pennsylvania
1991
William O. Oldson,
for A Providential Anti-Semitism: Nationalism and Polity in Nineteenth-Century Romania
1990
Joseph S. Fruton,
for Contrasts in Scientific Style
Kenneth M. Setton,
for Venice, Austria, and the Turkes in the Seventeenth Century
1989
Marshall Clagett,
for Ancient Egyptian Science
1988
Paul M. Lloyd,
for From Latin to Spanish
1987
Darwin Stapleton,
for The Transfer of Early Industrial Technologies to America
1986
Maija Jansson,
for Proceedings in Parliament 1614
1985
William Roach,
for The Continuations of the Old French Perceval of Chretien de Troyes, Volume 5
1984
Kenneth M. Setton,
for The Papacy and the Levant, Volumes 3 and 4
1981
Marshall Clagett,
for Archimedes in the Middle Ages, Volume 4
1979
Roland Mushat Frye,
for Milton's Paradise Lost and the Visual Arts
